N Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat' Map of Hokkaido JapanNorthern Japan: North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an 'unprecedented' threat to his country

USS Fitzgerald crash: 7 navy crew missing off Japan Map of Yokosuka Japan Among the injured is the Fitzgerald's commanding officer, who was taken to hospital by helicopter. The destroyer collided with the container ship

North Korea: Four ballistic missiles fired into Sea of Japan Three of them fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a 'new stage of ...

The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people. It's remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. A uranium...

Russo-Japanese War declared Map of TokyoTokyo: Fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea

Apr. 17, 1895

Treaty of Shimonoseki ending Sino-Japanese War Map of Shimonoseki Japan An unequal treaty signed at the Shunpanro hall between the Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire, ending the First Sino-Japanese War

Jul. 7, 1853

Mathew Calbraith Perry opens up Japan Map of Uraga Kanagawa JapanTokyo: Perry, a Commodore of the United States Navy, played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa

USS Fitzgerald crash: 7 navy crew missing off Japan Map of Yokosuka Japan Among the injured is the Fitzgerald's commanding officer, who was taken to hospital by helicopter. The destroyer collided with the container ship

Mathew Calbraith Perry opens up Japan Map of Uraga Kanagawa JapanTokyo: Perry, a Commodore of the United States Navy, played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa

N Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat' Map of Hokkaido JapanNorthern Japan: North Korea has fired a missile over northern Japan in a move Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an 'unprecedented' threat to his country

North Korea: Four ballistic missiles fired into Sea of Japan Three of them fell into Japan's exclusive economic zone after flying some 1,000km (620 miles), in what PM Shinzo Abe called a 'new stage of ...

The United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings killed at least 129,000 people. It's remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. A uranium...

Treaty of Shimonoseki ending Sino-Japanese War Map of Shimonoseki Japan An unequal treaty signed at the Shunpanro hall between the Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire, ending the First Sino-Japanese War